Ondo APC Congress: Former Lawmaker Flogged By Thugs.

 Several people were reportedly injured on Saturday after a fight broke out during the LG Congress of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Irele LGA of Ondo state. The injured which included the former lawmaker, representing the area at the House of Assembly, Hon Afolabi Iwalewa, and the current caretaker chairman of the LGA , Prince Gbadebo Odimayo.
 Speaking on the development, Iwalewa explained that trouble started when the leader of the party in the area and commissioner for Budget and planning, Mr. Emmanuel Igbadan, led some hoodlums to the venue of the Congress.
 According to him, members of the party in the LG had assembled at the party Secretariat for the exercise, waiting for the officials and party leaders but most of the members were disappointed when they learnt that the Congress would not hold.
  He said, "Igbasan and some leaders of the party in the LGA, insisted that the current executives of the party at the LG level should continue in that capacity while we wanted a Congress to usher in new leaders.
 "They invaded the party Secretariat with hoodlums numbering 30 and started shooting sporadically into the air to scare away people while some people were hit with a machete and beaten to coma.
  The former lawmaker said, he ran into the chairman office and the came out together after the caretaker chairman had called the security agents, but said the presence of the security operatives could not save him as the hoodlums descended on him and inflicted injuries on him.
 He, however, said he was rescued by the policemen and taken away from the scene of the incident with the police Hilux van.